KEYSTROKE Definition & Meaning

keystroke

[ kee-strohk ]

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noun

one stroke of any key on a machine operated by a keyboard, as a typewriter, computer terminal, or Linotype:
I can do 3000 keystrokes an hour.

keystroke

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noun

a single operation of the mechanism of a typewriter or keyboard-operated typesetting machine by the action of a key

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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of keystroke¹

First recorded in 1905–10; key ¹ + stroke ¹

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“DeepSeek logs your keystrokes, device data, location and so much other information and stores it all in China,” de Pulford said.

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TikTok can use this data, as well as information about an individual user's device, location and keystroke rhythms, to recommend videos to users on its automatically generated For You feed.

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Such services can track keystrokes and eye movements, take screenshots and log which websites are visited.

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“Instead of using 15 keystrokes, it took three,” he recalled recently.

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Mr Putin had earlier been filmed performing a single keystroke to exercise his democratic right.

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